Santiago Forero

Santiago Forero, Bogotá, Colombia, 1979 is a visual artist that experiments primarily through self reference using a singular sense of humor and various supports like photography, video and new media.

Forero's process is a practice of meditation, he uses images to to re ect on how society molds beliefs and ideas about itself and di erent cultures, his exploration in photography has transformed from using stereotypes and super cial images of society, to an exploration of the notion of identity through self portraits. In every project he pretends to explore and discover where his personal research takes him.

Forero graduated in Visual Arts, Ponti cia Universidad Javeriana Visual Arts and has an M.F.A. in Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin